Eye Anatomy
This is the white part of the eyeball.
What is the sclera?
This diagnosis often referred to in layman's terms as "near-sightedness" (when a patient can clear images up close with ease but struggles to clear at a distance) is derived from the Greek words "myein" meaning "closed" and "ops" meaning "eye".
What is Myopia?
These two types of doctors are very similar as they treat eyes, however only one goes to medical school and specializes in surgical and pathological care for an eye and the other attends a different school and generally specializes in the visual perception and functionality of an eye.
What is Ophthalmology versus Optometry?
This the light and microscope used by a doctor to more closely examine the health of their patient's eyes, and is usually accompanied by eye drops that dilate the patient's pupils.
What is a slit lamp?
This abbreviation is the honorific designation for a doctor of optometry, which is always included after the name of the doctor, in addition this same abbreviation just so happens to be the medical abbreviation for right eye given the Latin word for right eye "oculus dexter".
What is OD?
This is the transparent layer at the anterior region (front) of the eye is often called the window of the eye.
What is the cornea?
This ocular disease is a result of increased pressure of an eye and can lead to vision loss.
What is glaucoma?
This the final step before admission to an optometry school.
What are in-person interviews?
This is the device that makes optometrists famous for the question "one or two?" and has thousands of lens combinations that allows optometrists to determine what powers of lenses result in the best vision.
What is a phoropter? (also known as refractor)
The abbreviation used to denote a glasses prescription.
What is ORX?
This section of the brain is the where visual perception occurs and it is located at the very back of the brain.
What is the occipital lobe?
This diagnosis is exhibited by patients over 40, who struggle to fully accommodate, or clear an image due to the stiffening of the ocular lens.
What is presbyopia?
Due to other optometry schools being shut down for periods of time, this prestigious optometry school, located in Boston is the oldest continually operated optometry school since 1894, and was establish originally under the name Klein School of Optics, but goes by this other name today.
What is NECO?
These are known as the 3 S's or 3 don'ts of contact lenses for a patient to remember when not to wear their corrective lenses.
What is:
Don't Swim in
Don't Sleep in
Don't Shower in
This medical abbreviation is used to denote if a patient had any type of brain injury or concussion and when found on a patient's profile as part of the diagnosis, the exam process and treatments should be done with extreme caution, and slowly with great care.
What is a TBI?
This round, colorful region of the eye is sometimes known as the "muscular curtain" of the eye because of the muscular control it has over another adjacent section of the eye, the pupil.
What is the iris?
This common diagnosis is refractive type error and occurs when a patient's has imperfect curvature.
What is astigmatism?
While eye glasses had already been invented, in the 18th century this individual developed the first pair of bifocals.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This procedure (typically performed by an ophthalmologist and assisted by an optometrist), involves a laser reshaping the inner cornea of a patient's eye.
What is LASIK?
This abbreviation found on a glasses prescription is measurement of the spacing between the patient's pupils and helps to provide the best prescription possible for a patient.
What is PD? (pupillary distance)
These two liquids are found internally in your eye; one (the clearer watery fluid) is found in front of the lens and one (the thicker gel-like fluid) is found in the large space behind the lens.
What is Aqueous Humor and Vitreous Humor?(sometimes spelled Humour)
This disease is caused by the deterioration of the central portion of the retina and is the leading cause of vision loss, affecting more than 10 million Americans.
What is macular degeneration?
This famous chart was developed for eye exams by a Dutch ophthalmologist in 1862 for testing purposes.
What is the Snellen Eye Chart?
This instrument is specifically used to measure the intraocular pressure of the eye.
What is a tonometer?
This abbreviation refers to the amount of visual acuity that a patient can get at the best correction achieved with their prescription (for example 20/20 or 20/50) and is commonly listed after a patient's glasses prescription on their exam profile.
What is DVA?